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		jcelerier on April 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) > "Lack of programmability" is a feature if you ever have a non-programmable config file, then at some point someone will make a turing-complete programming language which goes on top of your tool.

ihuman on April 14, 2019 [–]

Or, if it's open source or an interpreted language, they could edit the code of the tool to implement whatever new features they want.

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